Kind of a Bummer...(Spoilers)

You know what's funny? I've seen this film many times, but I never thought about that until I saw it kind of recently with a friend. He pointed it out to me that they weren't really homeboys because they got in fights have the damn time. But now that I think about it. That's the director's point. It's much like the fading, romantic relationship; people out grow each other. People cling to their friends even when it's not beneficial to anyone. I'm sure they got along better before the night the movie takes place, but their personalities/ambitions conflicted when they got themselves in the worst situations. Turns out they ultimately weren't compatible with each other. I'm a quarter-century old and I've experienced this as well. Maybe not always as dramatic as the movie portrays, but definitely lost touch with a lot of my close friends over the years because we started to have less and less in common on top of our lives getting busier.

It was exactly a reflection of my teen "homeboys". I was always the neutral one, two other guys would always conflict and clash because of the same personality and criticism of each other, another guy was always a sheep and another guy was just not very smart.

The two conflicting guys had lots of arguments, which resulted in me and others getting in between them, but it was all good memories of fun and stupidity, and learning how to behave as young adults, which I cherish. Although I only keep in touch with just one of the guys these days, they were a big part of my life in shaping experience and understanding during my impressionable and "lost" years.